I purchased two copies of Newspaper for two websites I recently took over and find the theme very powerful and pretty good looking. I just ran into a BIG problem however and think it is theme related. The former site owners have used Google Feedburner for years. I want to upgrade to a better RSS to email system, one that shows images. However, after trying three different email providers who have RSS to email functions ready to go, none of them are able to show images along with the RSS feeds. One company said the feed was missing “content tags”. After going back and forth with my host, they had no clue what I was referring to. Now I am seeing others are having similar issues. Has a fix been created? Will one be? Emails are of course vital to everyone’s growth and I want to provide our readers with content delivered in a way they will pay attention to and share.
https://opticalvisionresources.com/
https://theopticalvisionsite.com/
Thank you for any help you can provide
Theme has nothing to do with RSS feeds.
There is long standing documentation on the web to add a ‘function’ either via theme or plugin, to inject the featured image into the attachment based on featured image.
Also – note that if you have no featured image “inside” the post meta, there will be no image in the RSS feed.
You can easily view your RSS feed code in Chrome to “see” what is actually there. Feedburner does show images as long as the image is in the post meta and not “outside” the body — for example, some templates where the main image is in a background div, or outside the post meta — obviously is not in the post meta for the RSS feed.
It’s well known, but perhaps new to most, that you can simply create your own RSS feed by making a new post template and then publish that feed to syndicate (we do that here).
So, you might make customfeed.php as a page template, make empty page with that name, select the template; then you end up with mysite.xxx/customfeed/ as the feed.
By making a custom RSS feed, you can include the ‘large’ thumbnail for the featured image within the top of the post meta in the FEED template, so that there is always the image in the feed.
Some info
http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-create-custom-rss-feeds-in-wordpress/
I don’t work here — just some feedback. Theme doesn’t control the default WP RSS feeds — was the upshot; the RSS is part of WordPress, and simply pulls post meta and nothing else.
forgot the other link
http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-add-post-thumbnail-to-your-wordpress-rss-feeds/
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